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 Graduate StudentsAs a graduate student, you are likely facing new academic challenges. The ideas about which you are reading, thinking, and writing are becoming increasingly complex, yet you need to find clear, concise, and engaging ways to express them. You are shifting from a focus on consuming information to a focus on producing and disseminating new knowledge and insights. You are expected to be fluent in the conventions of your discipline and to produce work that is free of grammatical and spelling errors. The Academic Skills Centre works closely with graduate students to help them develop as scholars and writers as well as teaching assistants. We hope that you will take advantage of the many services that we can offer you.
Upcoming WorkshopsGet it Done: Approaches to Writing Your Masters Thesis or MRP Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Traill College, Wallis Hall 102 10am-12pm This interdisciplinary workshop is designed for students in a range of humanities and social science programs including Public Texts, Canadian Studies, History, and Theory, Culture, Politics. It will introduce the major stages of writing a thesis, suggest techniques for meeting the challenges associated with each of these stages, and explore how to develop support networks to provide feedback and assistance with your work . Depending on student interest, we will schedule a future workshop to discuss chapters, proposals, or outlines submitted by volunteers. The workshop is contingent upon student interest. Click here to Register. Online Resources for Graduate StudentsSuccessful Transitions: Beginning Graduate StudiesTime Management For Graduate Students
Documentation GuideOur new online Documentation Guide provides detailed information on how to reference sources in all of the major documentation styles. Services for Graduate StudentsWriting ConferencesYou can book a free and confidential appointment to discuss any aspect of your writing. Academic Skills instructors can help you organize your ideas, outline, or upgrade your grammar skills. They can also look at partial drafts and comment on grammar, organization, and clarity. We offer booked appointments at main campus from Tuesday-Friday and at Trail College on Wednesday afternoons. Call 748-1720 to book your appointment. Time Management for Graduate StudentsGraduate work often involves long-term research and writing projects that have few check points along the way. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of what you need to accomplish and, as a result, to procrastinate your work. You can book an appointment with an Academic Skills Instructor to discuss time management problems and to create a project plan that will work for you. Call 748-1720 to book your appointment. Grant Applications and Personal StatementsThe Academic Skills Centre provides several resources to help you as you write graduate school or grant applications. The Academic Skills Centre is not an editing or proofreading service, but our instructors can comment on the strength and clarity of your writing and organization. Call 748-1720 to book an appointment. We also work with the Career Centre to offer "Apply Yourself: Writing the Graduate School Personal Statement," a workshop that provides advice on what to include in personal statements as well as how to write them. This workshop is offered on November 3rd at 10am in CC204. Please register online if you plan to attend. Services for Teaching AssistantsTop Ten Grammar Mistakes in Student Writing WorkshopOffered through the Instructional Development Centre, this interactive workshop focuses on how to identify and comment on grammar mistakes in your students' writing. This workshop will be offered on October 26 from 1-3pm. Contact the Instructional Development Centre for more information and to register. Referring StudentsAs a teaching assistant, you can refer students to the Academic Skills Centre for help with their math, reading, listening, writing, and grammar skills.
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